GREEK WARS

1. GREEK WARS

2. The Trojan War • from 1250 B.C. to 1210 B.C.. • it was in the bronze age. • the war began after the abduction of Queen Helen of Sparta. • Helen’s jilted husband Menelaus convinced his brother Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae at the time, to lead the expedition to get Helen back. • Agamemnon was joined by the Greek heroes.

3. First MessenianWar • The war was around 740 B.C. to 710 B.C.. • It was the Spartans against the fellow Dorians that lived in Messenia . • The First Messenian war was the longest in Greek history.

4. Second Messenian War • From 640 B.C. to 630 B.C.. • It was Spartans vs. Messenianrebels. • The casualties are unknown . • The reason for the war is the Messenians wanted their land back.

5. Persian War facts • The war happened in 499B.C to 479B.C.. • The war was between the Greeks and Persians. • At this point in time Persia was one of the largest empire in the world. • But Greek defied the odd and push the Persian army back into Asia.

6. First Peloponnesian War • This war happened in 460B.C. to 445B.C.. • It was the Athens vs. Sparta. • The number of casualties is unknown at the time. • At the end of the First Peloponnesian War the Athens fell.

7. Peloponnesian War • The Second Peloponnesian War happened in 431 B.C. to 404 B.C.. • Greek had low military technology at the time of this war • So the Greek city-states formed the Delian League. • The purpose of the Delian League was to put money into a shared treasury. • It took money to make weapons and ships and to train men. • The Greeks wanted to be ready to fund a war instantly

8. The first Macedonian War